Author: Kalee Ball

Photo by Josh Wessolowski Jacksonville’s upcoming powerhouse, LANNDS, just released her newest track. “Young Years” is in defense of millennials. It’s a hopeful and resistant track that calms in tumultuous times. “We will not conform/we will not be controlled,” she sings softly, but with a defiance that you can feel. …

Photos courtesy of Brian Squillace. Brian Squillace led me down a dimly-lit hallway, rounded a corner and climbed up a creaky set of dark wood stairs. There was a Burrito Gallery menu on a step. He glided through a small walkway through a big room full of well, stuff. It …

Photographer: Josh Wessolowski LANNDS sat in front of us in the back of Deep Search with a small smile lighting up her face. She fidgeted and looked down at the wood floor. She immediately thanked us for wanting to talk to her. Her humility radiated from her nervous demeanor. She …

Cali-based indie rock quintet Local Natives brought us an optimistic hit perfect for the summer yesterday. “Fountain of Youth” is the first release from their upcoming album, Sunlit Youth. The sound of the single isn’t much different from their earlier album, but it is definitely happier. The song seems to represent a …

Hayden Arp, a musician based in Oberlin, Ohio, believes that music is a universally social experience. When we spoke with him on June 19, he expressed how he wanted his music to play be a part in the interconnectedness of the human experience, ideally to connect people who might not be …

Katie Grace Helow is a fearless singer-songwriter and Jacksonville native with a recently-released sophomore album, Past Lives. With a second album under her belt, the fiery artist brings a unique blend of dark folk and alternative country rock to the world. Past Lives is a raw album, exploring the vulnerable …

Australian artist Lucy Peach is one to watch out for. Her single “Be so Good” was released back in 2015, but was recently featured on my Spotify Discover Weekly. I had to stop what I was doing to listen. While Lucy’s folksy voice takes you to a wildflower field in …

You read that right. The one and only Hozier has released a new single, written for the new Tarzan movie, “The Legend of Tarzan.” The slow drums and sensual voice are typical Hozier, but the song as a whole sounds much clearer than his self-titled album. He also uses less background singers, …

So, it’s officially summer, and “Stoned, Alone” is definitely a song you should add to your late night playlist. It’s a song perfect for sitting on your porch in the dark at 2 a.m., thinking about all the things you’ve lost. Teenage Wrist’s new single is very similar to their …

Dingy bar, hipster guys, craft beers and cigarette smoke. It’s everything you would expect from local indie band, Gov Club when we interviewed them at one of the Jacksonville watering holes, Burro Bar. Gov Club is made up of three 20-somethings: Austin Sherrill, Grant Fletcher and Adam Dooling. All three …